Seminars and reading groups
Seminars
During semester, the various disciplines within the school hold staff and graduate research seminars in which local and guest speakers read a research paper, followed by discussion. You are strongly encouraged to attend and are welcome to offer papers or suggest visiting speakers. Details of the events are circulated by email.
The Culture and Communication Graduate committee (CCGC) also holds weekly graduate seminars through out the semester.
The English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series runs weekly during semester, usually Wednesday 1pm in 4th Floor Linkway of the John Medley Building. For details contact Sarah Fernandes Crouch
The Creative Writing Seminar Series runs on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 1pm-2pm during semester in the Ian Maxwell Room (E261), John Medley building. For details contact Hayley Singer or Maria Tumarkin
Reading and research groups
The School hosts a dynamic community of postgraduate researchers, working across and between the range of disciplines covered by Culture and Communication. Students and staff organise and participate in a variety of reading and research groups, in addition to the more formal university programs. Designed to support high-level or intensive study of significant texts, topics and themes, these groups contribute strongly to the excellence of the research environment of the School.
Please note that the following details are subject to change: if you are interested in attending any of these groups, it would be advisable to contact the relevant coordinator first. If anyone wishes to change or alter any information on this list, please email the Advanced Study Group Coordinator. Many of these groups also have dedicated and up-to-date websites: if available, these are provided with the group listing itself.
Advanced Study Group Coordinator
Marc Mierowskymarc.mierowsky@unimelb.edu.au
Group | Contact | Time | Location |
Feminist Ethics in Art, Literature, Cinema Reading Group
| 1st Thursday of every month | Contact coordinator | |
Seminar in Criticism (graduate work-in-progress group | Fortnightly, Tuesday, 4pm | Contact coordinator | |
Medieval Round Table: | First Monday of the month at 6.15pm | Contact coordinator | |
Beat and Counterculture Reading Group | Fortnightly, Thursday, 5:30pm | Contact coordinator | |
Theatre and Performance Reading Group | Three times per semester | Contact coordinator | |
Middle English Reading Group | Fortnightly | Zoom – contact coordinator for link | |
Badiou, Conditions | Weekly Friday, 3.30pm | Contact coordinator | |
Critical Race Theory Reading Group | Weekly, Friday, 3.30pm | Contact coordinator | |
Lacan Reading Group |
| Weekly, Friday, 2.00pm | Contact coordinator |
Spinoza, Short Treatise | Weekly Friday, 1.00pm | Contact coordinator | |
Marx, Grundrisse | Weekly, Friday, 12.00pm | Contact coordinator | |
Hegel, Science of Logic, Reading Group | Weekly, Friday, 11.00am | Contact coordinator | |
Deleuze, Logic of Sense | Weekly, Friday, 10:00am | Contact coordinator | |
Milton, Paradise Lost | Weekly, Monday, 4.00pm | Contact coordinator | |
Dante, Paradiso | Weekly, Monday, 2.00pm | Contact coordinator | |
Joyce, Ulysses Reading Group | Weekly, Wednesday 2.00pm, | John Medley West 502. Contact coordinator for details | |
Auerbach, Mimesis, Reading Group | Weekly, Friday, 2.00pm | Contact coordinator | |
Environmental Humanities Reading Group | Weekly, Friday, 11am | Contact coordinator | |
Critical Code Studies Reading Group | Fortnightly, Wednesday 1.00pm | Online, contact coordinator |